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No. 6:0438. Patented Aug. 3o, |898. A. HAIGH o. A. somos.

cARolNo ENGINE.

(Application filed Dec. 9, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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a llNirn ARMITAGE HAIGII, OF I-IUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND, AND ALPHONSEBORIOS, OF VEVEY, SWITZERLAND.

CARDINGENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,138, dated August30, 1898. Application filed December 9, 1897. Serial No. 661,289. (Nomodel.)

To all whom tm/ty concern,.-

Be it known that we, ARMITAGE HAIGH, a subject of I-Ier Majesty theQueen of Great Britain, residing at I-Iudderseld, in the county of York,England, and ALPHONSE BO- RIOs, a citizen of the Swiss Republic,residing at Vevey, Switzerland, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Carding-Engines, of which the following is aspeciiication.

Our invention relates to an improved arrangement and construction ofparts in a carding-engine whereby an increased number of workers can beemployed around the main cylinder within a given radius,the object beingto enable the material passing through the machine to be worked andreworked more thoroughly than heretofore and by reason of thearrangement of the parts in a smaller space than heretofore.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows inelevation and diagrammatically a carding-engine arranged according toour invention.

According to our invention workers 1 1a are arranged in close orderaround the main cylinder or swift 3, and between each two woikers 1 lare diverting-plates 2, which divide the workers into pairs over theface of the main cylinder. The plates 2 serve to retain the iiber on theworker lfl and `prevent its being taken forward by the next worker 1,and between each pair of workers 1 1a 1 1a is a stripper/1, whichremoves the fiber Vand places it o-n the main cylinder again. The

course of the liber is indicated by the line 5,

from which it will be seen that after passing the usual feed-rollers andlickers-in the ber is removed from the main cylinder by the rst worker lof the first pair, removed by the small stripper 4, and laid onto thecylin der 3, as shown, and then carried by the cylinder 3 to the secondpair of workers 1 1, which revolve in the same direction, (as do all theworkers) a portion of the fiber, however, being first carried around bythe worker 1 of the first pair and back to the worker 1 and broughtaround said worker 1 onto the main cylinder again, and so would becarried on again if it were not for the stripper 4, which removes aportion of the extra fiber now on the worker 1 and returns it to themain cylinder, which it follows in its course to the next pair 1 1,Where the operation,is repeated. It will be seen that thediverting-plates between the pairs of Workers prevent one pair fromremoving the liber fromthe pair next in order and that as such platesoccupy no appreciable space the separate pairs are obtained without anyspacing apart of the individual pairs, which results in a considerablesaving of space.

What we Aclaim is- In a carding-engine, the combination of a maincylinder, workers arranged around said cylinder in proximity thereto andat equal distances therefrom, diverting-plates placed at intervalsbetween the Workers and serving to separate them into groups of two, anda stripper between the workers of each pair, said strippers operating tostrip the cotton from the first worker of each pair, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ARMITAGE HAIGII. ALPHONSE BORIOS.

Vitnesses to the signature of Armitage I-Iaigh:

FRED B. RAMsDEN, DAVID HAIGH.

Vitnesses to the signature of Alphonse Borios:

E. SCHNEIDER, t V. KOENITZ.

